The Sun. — London, England, 1809-09-14 00:00:00

. UNION-HALL — Four persons were brought yester day for examination, who had been taken into cus tody at Vauxhall, by Goff and Wortley, on suspi cion of having picked the pocket of L )rd William Somerset, on Monday evening, of a very valuahle gold snutf-box. His Lordship stated, that in pas ing from the Rotunda, he telt some person press against him, and immediately feeling for his snuff ax, which on account of its size he . carried in his coat-pocket, he missed it,. On turning round, he dotty the four prisoners near him, on charging them with robbing him, two of them appeared much con itased, but escaped among. thecrowd. The officers being apprised of his Lordship's loss, soon found them and took them into custody. On searching them, nothing suspicious was found, nor could any trace of the snuff-box be discovered, but the officers considered it to be their duty to detain thew. On being ordered to give an - account of them selves, two of them described themselves as straw hat-manufacturers, at Newry, in Ireland. A third stated himself to, be the son of a proVisiOn-merchant In Ireland, otind the foutth as Sergeant Conimander of the 21st Regiment, absent on furlough. Oti exa mining his furlough it appeared that his leave of ab sence hal expired. He was, therefore detained until information could be. sent and an answer received from the iegithenr. The other three prisoners, after receiving a suitable admonition from the Magistrate, were discharged. \VoltsHip-sTirEET..Yesterday. Catherine Smith and Ann Garret underwent an examination, charged wi►h robbing the ready-furnished apartments of Mr. Jacob Newman, in Whitecrusi-street, in the parish of St. Luke, of sheets and other property, which they - pledged. They were fully committed for trial. • In Mr. Brown's Garden, of Maida,Hill, Padding ton, there is a pear-tree in full blossom, for the second - time this season ; a' cirumstance seldom occurring in this Country. A few days ago Thomas Lawson, of Hull, was apprehended in Lincoln, on suspicion of being one - of the ptineipals of'a large and desperate gang of house-breakers, who have for some time past in fested and alarmed the town of Hull, and who, on the 24th of August broke into the house of Mr. Norblade, a merchant there. A constable from Hull had been round the country in pursuit of him,, but in vain; and he was taken at Lincoln, with some professional address, by Mr. Matthew White, a special constable for that city. Lawson was for merly tried and sentenced at York to be transported, and served the 'term on board the hulks : since t hat time he has found means to be licensed to keep a public-house at Hull, which has been the resort 'of hii gang of house-breakers. Upon finding himself - in danger of being apprehended, he, made his es .- cape ; but many stolen goods were found on his pre mises. He is removed to Hull. • The following circumstance•occurted at Smiths, near Whitby, on Tuesday se'nnight :—Mr. Samuel Price, of that _place, having sent his servant-boy with a horse and sledge, to fetch 4 plough ,from the blacksmith's shop, where it had been repairing, the horse having taken- fright at some:fish exposed to dry against the side of a house, turned suddenly round, and set off at full gallop towards the place whence it set out. The boy was thrown off, and the horse and sledge passing over his body, hp was • taken up for dead. In turning a corner, a fisher man's wife, of the name of Jefferson, having run under the window of a shop on the oppoSite side of the street, to avoid the horse, the sledge was driven against her with such violence, as to . throw her down, break her leg, and otherwise bruise her in so dreadful a manner, that her life is .despaired of . The poor woman is the mother of four young chil dren, and in a state of pregnancy. The furious , animal continued its course, till turning down an openirig leading to the sand, it precipitated itself from a staith, over the heads of a woman and three children, who '.here sitting under it, the whole of who:n providentially - escaped without injury.— Crossing the sand at full speed, it-plunged into the ' sea, and nearly upset a fishing coble, in which were an old man and a boy ; .the latter being thrown out into 'he Water, though afterwards taken up, without having sustained much injury; The horse then pro ceeded-towards another fishing Coble at a little dis tance, from which the people succeeded; with some difficulty, in beating it .Off •s-pith their oars. After . swimming' about some time in great agitation, it took to the shore, and gallopping up the - beach, pro ceeded a considerable distance into the country be fore it was taken and secured. In the memory of - the oldest . person living, there has not been so great a profusion of nuts as the present season affords; every hedge of hazel, cop pice,. and wood, teems -with them ; they hang as thick (almost) as_ the leaves that surround them.-- This is the case, not only in particular districts and counties, but throughout Eogland.- 7 -But if the. prodigality of nature is . admirable in regard, ter this beautiful produetian; so ought the public. caution to be - no • less, in regard to its use. " The kernels of nuts," says an eminent physici4), Yr are extreme ly injurious to asthmatic pet so.ns ; they are hard of )digestion, and‘ stuffing, causing shortness of breath, Wheezing, &c."—They should not be prematurely gathered, nor immediately used a week's lodging in the husk will improve their flavour, and render tln.mi less exceptionable in point of wholesomeness. LONDON : Printed by RI( At the Surz-O,FF POLICE. 11; Rs. P LUNKC4T. ' ' • ' AA A RLEOROU GB -S LET. --Yssterday this - 'Lady, accompanied by her tri‘:nd's, and,atiended by her Chunsel and Solicitor, ,appeared bei ore - Mr. Ntrivz and the- other. Magistrates at thiS-Orlice, according to their appointment, when Mr. ALLtY, who, on a forrrier day, appeared 'in tiiipport of the complaint, now stated in substance as tallows to the Magiitrates" That Mrs. Plunkett's friends had been with Mr. King to propose paying. what monies she had received fromhi.m, and that he P; to deliver up all the securities which site had placed hiS hands ; and whatever reason he had to suspect the verity of these securities, get he was not induced to enter further into their investigation, and had le solved Co drop the prosecution. - Mrs. Plunkett was then discharged.. I'VEW SOUTII.IIIALES. DESCRIPTION OF SIDNEY TOWN, THE CAPITAL t THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. It was on the 27th pl June, in the evening, says M. Peron, t,hat our vessel arrived in sight of Port Jackson, and a few days afterwards, the other two ships got sate into the harbour, after having, through obstinacy of Captain Hamelio, the commander of the expedition, been for a considerable time in the greatest danger. - • Our arrival at Port Jackson, did not excite so much surprise amongst the colonists, as might have been expelled; hut for ourselves, we were com pletely astonished at the flourishing state in which we found this singular, and distant establishment : • the beauty of the port, at Inst.attracted our whole attention. • From the entrance, says Commodore Philip, ( whose description is not ink the least exaggerated), of not more than two miles across, Port Jackson gradually opens, till it forms a spacious harbour, with sufficient depth of water tor, the-largest ships, and room enough to contain, in perfed safety, all that could on any occasion, be colleded. Even a thou : " sand ships of the line might manoeuvre here with ease. . The bay takes a western diredion, extends to,the distance of thirteen miles inland, and has at least a hundred little creeks, formed by very narrow tongues of laud, and aff)rd excellent shelter against winds, from any point of the compass. • • Towards the middle of this magnificent port, and 'on its southern bank, in one of the principal-creeks,. rises Sydney Town, 'the capital of the county of Cumberland, and of all the English colonies in this part of the world : seated at the base of two hills, that are contiguous to each other, and having the ad-, vantage of a rivulet, whidh runs.completely through it,. this infant town affords a view, at once agreeable and .pitturesque.. To the right, and at the. north • point of Sydney Cove, you perceive the signal batter, which is built . upon, a rock, difficult of access,: ,tieces . of. cannon, pro } Ceded by a turf entrenchment, cross their fire with that of another battery, which I shall present ly mentiotr; and thus defend, in the most etfeaea I manner, the approach to the harbour and the town. Farther on appear the large buildings.that form the hospital, and which are capable of containing two, or three hundred sick. Amongst these buildings there is one particularly worthy of notice, as all the parts of it were prepared in Europe, and brought out in Commodore Philip's squadron; so that in a few days after its arrival, there was an hospital ready, to re ceive such of the crews as were sick. On the same side of the town, at the sea shore, you observe a very fine magazine, to which the largest ships can come up, and discharge their cargoes. In the same diredtion are several private docks, in which, are built 'brigs and cutters, of different sizes, for the purpose of wading either inland, or beyond the co lony. These vessels which are from 50 to 300 tons burthen, are built entirely with the native wood; even their masts are obtained from the forests of the colony. - The discovery of the Strait, which separates New Holland from Vari Diemen's land, was made in a simple whale-sloop, commanded by. Mr. Bass, the surgeon of the Reliance. This•vessel may be said to have been consecrated to that great discovery, and hazardous navigation ; for it is preserved in the har bour with a sort of religious veneration : some snuff boxes have been made out . of its keel, of which the • possessors are both proud and jealous; and the Go vernor himself thought he could not make a more acceptable present to our Chief, than a piece of the wood of i his sloop, erichased in a large silver tooth-pick box ; round which were engraved the principal par ticulars of the discovery of Wiss's-Straits. It is at the spot called Hospital Creek, that the ship; of individuals unload their cargoes. Behind the hospital, in the same line, is the prison, which has several dungeons, capable of holding from an hunch ed and fifty to two hundred prisoners; it is surrounded by a high and strong wall, and has a numerous guard on duty, both by clay and. night. A short distance from the prison is the storehouse, for the reception. of wines, spiritous liquors, salt provisions, 4c. In the front of it is the armoury, where the garrison is drawn up every morning ;- accompanied by a nume rods and well-composed band, belonging to the New South Wales regiment. The whole western part of this spot is occupied by the house of the Lieutenant, - Governor-General ; behind which is a vast garden, which is worth - the attention both of the philo sopher and the naturalist, on account of the the gieat number of useful vegetables which are cultivated in it : and which have been procured from every part of the world, by its present respthable possessor, Mr. Paterson, a distinguished traveller,. and Member of the Royal Society of London. Be tween the house and the magazine, just mentioned, is the public school: here are. educated in the prin - ciples of religion, morality, and virtue, those young females who are the hope of the rising co lony ; but whose parents are either too degenrate, or too poor, to give them proper instruction. Lt the public school, however, under respeaable ma trons, they are taught, from their earliest years,. all . the duties of a good mother of a family. Such is one great advantage of the excellent colonial system,- established in these distant regions. Behind the house of the Lieutenant-Governor l§eneral, in a large magazine, are deposited .all the (tried pulse and corn belonging td the State. It is a sort of public granary, intended for the support of the troops, and the people who receive their sub sistence from the government.' The barracks occu py a considerable square, and have in front several field pieces ;Abe edifices, for the accommodation of the officers, form the lateral parts, or ends of _the building; and the powder magazine is in the mid dle. Near this, in a small private house, the prin . cipal civil and military officers assemble. It is a sort of COnee-house, maintained by s!lbscription, is which there are several amusements, but particular ly billiards; at which any person may play free a eXpence. Behind the armoury is a large square • . tower, which serves for an observatory to those Eng lish officers who study astronomy.; at the base of this 'tower, the foundation of a church has beer' laid, of which the building just, mentioned is intended to form the steeple; but a strudure,of this kind, rt . quiriog considerable time, labour, and expence, the At the east point of the creek is a second battery, the tire of which crosses that of the signal station.-- The one of which I am now speaking,' was dis mantled at the - time of our arrival at Port Jackson ; but it has beet] put in order since our departure. On the shore, as' you approach the town, is a small salt-pit, where the Americans, who were allowed to settle for, the purpose at Port Jackson in 1795, pre !pared most ot- the salt used the colony. Farther on, and to.Svards the bottom of the harbour, is the part . • called Government Creek, because it is reserved for the,ageots and vessels of the State. Between this creek and the salt-:pit, is the place for &eking and careening the ships. The natural .quays are so per peudkular, and well-formed, that without any kind of labour-or expence, on the part of the - English, the largest ships . might be laid along them in perfea security. Near the Governinent Creek, are three. public magazines, one of which contains All the articles necessary for the various purposes of - do mestic life, such as earthenware, household furni ture, culinary utensils, instruments of agriculture, &e. The number of these .articles that is here amassed, is truly astonishing, and the mode in which they are delivered out, is wise and salutary. In this distant country, the merchandizes of Eu rope bear so high. a price, that it would have been next -to impossible for the population to procure such as are indispensable to the common wants of life : the English Government has therefore anticipated these wants, • by- filling large store-houses with.every articles that can •be required, all of which are deliver ed to the colonists,• at fixed prices, that are extreme ly moderate ; sometimes even below what they cost in .Europe. But in °riles to. preveOt avaricious spe culations, or waste,. no one is admitted into theSe depots without a written order from the Governor, in whibh are specified the articles that the bearer is in need of. In another house are preserved the dirre rent uniforins and cloathing for the troops and . con vias, as well as, vast quantities of sail-cloth and cord- • age for the•government shipa. The last of the three, buildings just mentioned is a kiud.of public manu faaory ; in which are employed* female convicts.--- Behind these magazines is the Governor's house, which is built in the Italian style, 'surrounded by a colonnade, as simple as it is elegant, and,in front of which is a fine country that descends to the sea shore : already in this garden. may be seen, the Nor folk Island pine, the superb Columbia, growing by the side of the barnboo of Asia ; farther on is the Portugal orange, and Canary fig, ripening beneath the shade of the French apple-tree ; the cherry-, peach, pear, awl apricot, are interspersed amongst the 133nskia, Metrosideros, Correa, Melaleuca, Ca suarina,sEaOlyptos, and a great number of usher indigenous trees. Beyond the Government Garden, on the other side of a neighbouring hill, is the wind-null, , the bake-house, and the State ovens, that arc used for Snaking ship biscuit ; these are capable of furnishing from fifteen to eighteen hnndred pounds per-day. Not far from a contiguous creek, at .a spot ss hick •the natives call, Wallatnoula, is the charmingshabita tion of Mr. Palmer, the Commissary-General ; a rivulet of fresh water runs before it, and empties it self into the creek, which here forms a safe and con venient basin. Here Mr. Palmer has built several small vessels, which he employ in whale fishing, and catching phocm, or sea-elephants, either at New Zealand, or in Bass's • Straits. The neighbouring Holt-fields furnish a considerable quantity of bricks and tiles, for the public and private buildings of the Colony. [To be continued.] The following extraordinary story is from an Irish Paper :—" J. L.- a young man of London derry, paid. his addresses to a Miss S. a Clergyman's daughter, who had a child by him ten months since, and kept it in an obscure part of the city. He pro ! mired frequently to marry her, but deferted it on pretence that his circumstances would shortly im prove. Some persons, however, wrote a letter to his tattier, informing him of the business, which his fattier spoke to hint of. After this he, treated her with great cruelty, and accused her of having wrote the letter, which she denied ; he then paid his • ad dresse's to a Miss P. and was to be married to her. To amuse this new lady, he proposed a party of pleasure, the morning previous to which, the de serted young Woman put a quantity of corrosive sublimate into each of the bowls of milk provided before breakfast. The young man's brother and sister sipped, but did not finish all their milk; he then came in and drank up his, and what they left. also. - .His brother and sister shortly after began to vomit, and continued unwell all that day. He re turned about twelve, extremely unwell, and went to bed ; his brother and sister revived by Sunday but on Monday he was taken worse, and. died on Thursday. Miss S. (who lived next door) ,as soon as she ascertained his fate, dratik an infusion of arse nic. His friends sent for a bailiff to take her into wastody, who found her on her bed in much ,agony ; she proceeded with him to the gaol, where she ex pired, on her advancing into the hail. She lett a letter for him, which.she wrote sotne days before she took the arsenic, denying having written 'the letter to his father, and_ stating that he had made ao attempt to destroy the child by an infusion of opium ; also that she herself went with an Mien- Lion to poison the child, but could, not find .con rage: schia. This . tnin,• whoSe daring, bat unrorturate enter . - prise in the present eimpaign, has madedlis name sal well known in • this coantry,, was i.re: iouly a ton spicnous.charaCler in• Germany. The following par ticulars revealing hi's conduct 'in the war between France and Pi ussia, are extra led from a work pub-. lished some time ago at Berlin : Lieut. Schill, born of an obscure, and by no means wealthy family, in Silesia, served as an otficer in the • Queen's regiment of dragoons. He was very little noticed, as he spent no money, contra6ted no debts', did not play, and paid attention to nothing but mi litary matters. He was in the battle of Auerstadt with his regiment, on the 14th of Oaober, and was wounded in the head. In the general contusion, lire escaped being taken prisoner, got his wound bound up, and went to Colberg, where he effeeted his cure. During his stay there, repeated intelligence was received of the rapid approach of the French( also to Colberg; .on which, though not 'perfectly recovered, he took horse with his servant, and lett Calberg ; - he tell in with some dragoons of his own . regiment on the way to Stargard, who joined him. Several'other volunteers having also joined, he made some small attempts on the French forage and pro vision transports, which they , brought from the Right to the Left Bank. of the Oder. These at tempts succeeded, be aspired to still greater; he ex tended hiS attacks. also to the convoys,of money, and now endeavoured to reduce Ins operations to some order and plan. Napoleon had direaed his line of principal Opera- tions above Berlin and Custrin, along the Vittila to Thorn and Warsaw. The light corps wasao o‘er- - run Silesia, and another from Stettin to at against Swedish Pomerania and Stralsund. Upper and Lower Pomerania, and the coasts of the Baltic, appeared at first to have escaped his notice, and probably he by:- beved that these provinces would 'naturally kill' into his hands the moment he should make himself tnas ter of the Vistula from Warsaw to Dantzic anti 81-r hing. Satin observed this, and a: ailed himatif 'this extensive field that was opened to him. .Entirely cut off from the Royal Army , from his,resocite3 alone, he formed a corps composed of volunteers and other young men, who wished to form them selves for a military life: By means of the money; provisions; and horses, &c: 'which he had taken from the French, he formed an independent corps of from 800 to woo men, which consisted mostly of ca valry. The infantry in linen frocks, barefooted, and half naked; the cavalry moqly without saddles, their swords hanging by a cord round their slionl ders ; he now carried and extended his ravages, and kept the right bank of the Oder from Stutgard to the sea-coast. The French Commander, weakened by the great distance of his main army, and -com pelled to reinforce his bead-quarters on the left bank of the 'Oder, could nor make any impression •on Schill, and his ravaging 'corps ; wherehae be ad vanced without interruption, provided, Colberg suffi ciently with provisions, brought over from Sweden arms and ammunition, sent the Royal army se veral, thousand guilders, -of which he had not imme di te l Y need s anti was thus enabled to rely always on Col berg in his rear as a sure depot. By his exertions the obtaining of provisions, for the Prussian and Russian armies from the Baltic, .anti of course to make a strong diveision, inorder to sup press the Silesian insurrection under Pless, were re' dered unnecessary. At last, the Italian regiments that had arrived in Berlin, wet e sent againstCol berg there by the way of Stuigard;• another corps from Stettin by Wollin, and another by Pornmeril ion, in order to put - a final stop to Schilt's operation`' •and to reduce •Colberg. Schill was now obliged 5 0 . retreat - by Stargard, Naugard, and Wollen, and to retire under the . cannon of Colber-g. Here it wt's his first care to fortify the villages of Sello, Hohen' berg, Schans; and Maykuhil, and to put theM iii 3 • proper state of defence, which beliid in spite of all 'the unfavourableaarentustances, as well as the short time 'would permit him. Schill then went to Sweden to procure intecouts, and . if' possible ro relieve:Col - berg. The - King; however, - ordered blip, leis corps, to go to Stralsiind. With a design to carry it of, he appeared before Colberg with eight v2 ss e ) '' but only carried half a squadron of cavalry, as the Commandant refused him the rest, while tie him self had so much need of them. • Schill thus Cam e to Stralsund, and at last joined, the corps of Blucher, to which he was appointed Major. When Major Schill, after the evacuation of Berlin by the French , on the loth of December, arrived with was there almost guard of his corps to capital, be hs adoredservices b y the s o p e n o Ipulo thz c e t Frederic hat William en i ivattaansr t he 1 ld. alwaysl advance dvt oi division o o c. a u i r i a d his name.. . b w y h Major Schill had giv en, On Monday se'nnight Mr. John Whittatn, d i '' Skipton, attended the annual'meeting of the tra des ; man's society : on Tuesday, he was married; I. l il. ~,. On Wednesday he was a corpse. . _— StilP NEWS. • 2HARD HARRIS, of No. 4, Mattlett-court, Bow.strect ; and Published by WILLIAM A RAU GE R SC PPS, South iVlolton.stteet,,G oFverio ,squAre, ICE, NO. tl2 Stran d; GRAtiSEND, 'SEPTEMSER.I2. Arrived—the Essex, Bronk, and' Rover, Ray, fron t „. 0 0 raltar ; Nesbitt; Iron Canton; Dolpnin, Gottelibur,.ll; William, Morand, front Baltimore ; au Friends, I , rodrick, troni Nova Scotia. • a nd Sailed—the Gallant Scliemer, Donovan, for Cat hy ' the Hope, Williams, for Oporto. 131R711S • • . On the. 26th ult.. at Market Bosworth, the Lady of Cloo° . Dilke Esti, ot a Daug.hhh . . . A fV . On ' Suntlay la,t, in LincOln'3:inii-fields, the La-Y ° bertltobbins, Esq. of k-Son. - '' _.....--'' ~, , . - - 1114 . 1(1? I ED. •,- . • r tes Ott Monday. last, at Little: 13addow, , Essex, Mr. ¶-.• , a .,,d , Wills, ,wg of Neate.street,. to ,lis.,Aii i i - t orie , o f Litti ", dow. • rl lll/ Yesterday, at St. Mary's, - i Carnbeth, the Rev . i"na. do: l3: , ;-stt, of Stockwell, Chaplain to his .1t oval 1-iighijs of rancess of Wales, to Maty, niece of Robert Slade, L'q . Doctors' Commons. _-.----'# DIED. , Ost On Sunday 13st, at his house at Kingland; ' har 'Esq. many years au ironmonger . in 13tshopsgate.stfeet. Izor, On the= i tit inst. at Brighton, the infant son of (. I). 1-14:ewood. rh 'Y e° On the 9th of ittly, it) the West Indies, in the 166.artand of his age, Mr. Robert Batter, Midshipman. of the taeue frigate; and second son of Robert Daher , Es q . of place. Have ". Govemors lirfearfg it into', et; ecution ; preferring the forination Of such establish ment, as fre more immediately necessary for the presetratioD of the colony. While- waiting, how ever, for the ereEtion of a church, divine service is perforcned in one of the apartments of the great coin magazine. Two fine wind-mills terminate on this side the series of the principal public edifices. Over the rivulet that intersects the town, there was a wooden bridge, which, together with a strong causeway, - may be said to occupy all the bottom of the valley. We passed over this bridge, in order to take a rapid view of the eastern part of Sydney Town. Before our departure, the wooden bridge was de stroyed; to make way for one which they were about to build of stone ; at the same time a water mill was built here by the Government, and strong locks had bern formed, either to keep in the.water of the rivulet, .or to stop that of the marshes, which runs to a considerable distance into the valley, and rrt'ght be advantageously employed in turning the mil!. a